*I doubt Poser will be allowed to die out. With the enormous user-base Poser has, there's too much money to be made by further development.

*That statement is completely correct. While poser has an enourmous user base, the number of users that actually buy is key to the further development of poser. Starting with the release of Poser 5, with each succesive version the number of buying users has been decreasing. If the user base isn't buying or upgrading to the new verison then poser will arive at a point that further development isn't worth the investment anymore, since good returns cannot be quaranteed any longer.

I like Poser, but I'm not buying every upgrade released. I'm on Poser Pro Base now and I really do love it, best version of Poser as far as I'm concerned. It almost works as Poser should work. Almost..... there's still room for improvements, like better memory handling with duplicate items & textures in a scene, a better light system, better camera system and so on. Will this ever happen? As much as I love Poser I doubt version 8 will be released, there are too little paying customers left to support the future development of Poser. SM has paid quite some money to take over EF and I seriously doubt they're happy with the sales figures up to now., I think they're starting to realise that the investment isn't as profitable as they thought it would be.

Haven't heard that many owners of PP complain it was bug ridden so far. That could either mean it's pretty solid or not that many folks have bought it and know how use it to break yet. Hard to believe nobodies having problems with the high end plugins.

There's another option.... only few people have actually bought it and that's more likely the case and so we do not see a lot of discussion and complaints.

Remember the release of Poser 5? Threads and threads and more threads soon after it's release. Then came Poser 6..... considerable less threads but still a good amount of them. Poser 7??? Compared to Poser 6 not too many threads and compared to Poser 5 little threads. Now we see Poser Pro..... even compared to Poser 7 there are very few threads about it. Compared to Poser 6 hardly any and when compared to Poser 5 almost none.

It's a clear downfall and it's worrying, since it's not a good sign for the further development of Poser.

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